Speakers and Session Chairs

Kuban Altan

Kuban first met computers during his childhood via games and the very famous Commodore64. Then he moved to the Amiga computer, which was known for its graphics capabilities. Kuban started to develop graphics demos and games on the Amiga computer, where he programmed the video chips at the hardware register level.

Kuban started his professional life in the broadcast industry as a 3D artist in 90s, where he first met Silicon Graphics computers. Then he became a compositing artist using Discreet Logic Flame. He worked on many TV commercials, and a few feature films as a compositor and VFX supervisor.

In 2014, he became the Head of Research and Development at Zero Density. Since then, he is working to merge his background from post production VFX pipelines, game technology and broadcast for the Virtual Studio production technology. He designs the node-based real-time compositor "Reality Engine" and the "Reality Keyer".

Dimitrios Antsos

As Manager of the Space Communications and Navigation Technology Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Dimitrios Antsos is leading a group of technologists in the research and development (R&D) of state-of-the-art technologies for the future of spacecraft telecommunications. In addition, over the past 20 years, Dr. Antsos has acted as a consultant to companies in the broadcast switching and patching industry. In that capacity, he has designed and developed advanced, high-bandwidth switching jacks for patchbay applications.Before returning to JPL in April of 2003, Dr. Antsos was Chief Technical Officer of Upstream Systems, a leading, international mobile commerce company that provides revolutionary internet-age technologies and services to mass media. Before that Dr. Antsos was R&D manager and senior scientist at Pulsent Corporation, a Silicon Valley start-up that performed cutting-edge research in advanced video compression. Prior to that, he was supervisor of the Spacecraft Transponder and Signal Processing group in the Spacecraft Telecommunications Equipment Section of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, performing R&D and fabrication of radio telecommunications systems for spacecraft. Since 1995, he has also been a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, teaching graduate-level courses in Microwave Circuits and Antennas and other analog electrical engineering areas.Antsos is the holder of 3 patents and has several publications in major refereed IEEE journals. He is the recipient of several NASA certificates of recognition for various NASA Tech Brief publications, and was the winner of the Eta Kappa Nu Senior Design Contest in 1990.Antsos holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate in electrical engineering, all from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

Thomas Bause Mason

Thomas Bause Mason began his career in Cologne, Germany, as a programmer for automation software. Before his move to Los Angeles, Bause Mason worked at the West German Television and Cologne Broadcasting Center, where he led the QC department. In LA, he became a postproduction consultant, building and running the encoding operations for Ascent Media. Joining NBC Universal in 2005, he focused on emerging media technology, spending two years in London to support the company's international business. Moving to New York in 2008, Bause Mason provided POC's, product evaluation, and best practice advice to NBC Universal's business units. He assisted industry organizations in standards development, technical recommendations, and study group reports. In 2017 Thomas founded Open Media Consulting, LLC where he offers consulting services to the media industry. He holds several patents relating to watermarking, 3D, authentication, metadata tagging and VR.

Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett, ASC has been a cinematographer for over 35 years, primarily shooting television commercials the world over, for hundreds of major clients, from companies like Ford, Lexus, Coca Cola, Apple Computer, American Airlines, McDonalds, and Budweiser.

Over the years, Bill has worked on several feature films as a camera operator, on either the first or second unit. Some titles include: Superman III, The Black Stallion Returns, Howard the Duck, To Live and Die in LA, Silverado, American Flyer, The Right Stuff (aerials), Bugsy(miniatures), Waiting to Exhale (title sequence), Cocktails (aerials), Dante’s Peak, and Drive. He has also worked as 1st or 2nd unit DoP on the TV series: 24, The Fosters, and Heart Breaker.

Mr. Bennett had the great honor of being the first cinematographer with a career consisting of primarily shooting television commercials to be invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers.

Along with Ron Dexter in the early 80’s, Mr. Bennett co-invented a device at the request of Robert Dalva, the Director of The Black Stallion Returns, called the Terra-Flite. Designed to allow smooth camera movement over rough terrain, it pre-dated the invention of the Steadicam, and utilized then-new technologies they had to create, such as gyroscopic stabilization, remote follow-focus, video assist, and remote pan and tilt control.

Mr. Bennett was partner with Howard Preston in the design and creation of the Preston Cinema Systems Micro-Force Zoom Control, which has become an indispensable standard of the industry, seen on every set in the world.

Mr. Bennett has long been an advisor to Arri in the design of their cameras, having great influence in the design of the 435 film camera, and more recently the Alexa and Alexa Mini digital camera. He has over the years shot demonstration films for Arri and Zeiss, for their many cameras and lenses.

Marcelo Bertalmio

Marcelo Bertalmío (Montevideo, 1972) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2001. He is an Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Among other honors, he was awarded the Ramón y Cajal Fellowship, the ICREA Academia Award, and the 2012 SIAG/IS Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for co-authoring the most relevant image processing work published in the period 2008-2012. Has an ERC Starting Grant for his project “Image processing for enhanced cinematography” and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for a tone mapping method. Has written a book titled “Image Processing for Cinema”. His current research interests are in developing image processing algorithms for cinema that mimic neural and perceptual processes in the human visual system.

Subhabrata Bhattacharya

Subhabrata Bhattacharya is currently a Senior Research Scientist in Netflix, Los Gatos (CA) where he explores Computer Vision techniques to solve real world problems encountered in post production of multimedia content. He has previously worked in Adobe (Seattle, WA), Siemens Research (Princeton, NJ) and Columbia University (New York, NY) in capacity of a research scientist, investigating solutions to problems spanning across Healthcare, Entertainment, Energy and Heavy Engineering sectors. He received his PhD from University of Central Florida in 2013, specializing in Computer Vision. Prior to his PhD, he worked in IBM and Infosys (Bangalore, India), engineering distributed computing environments. He received his Bachelors Degree in computer science in 2003 from University of Burdwan (West Bengal, India).

Alireza Bidar

Paul Briscoe

Paul began his industry career in 1980 in Engineering at CBC Television. Specializing in the emerging domains of digital television and CGI, he was one of the lead designers of the all-digital Toronto Broadcast Centre. He joined Leitch Technology in 1994 as Product Engineer, defining and leading development of products for the digital, HD and IP eras. Over 19 years he occupied various R&D roles including R&D Manager and Principal Engineer. Today he provides technology and standards consultation to the rapidly evolving media industry. He is Canadian Regional Governor, Past Chair of the Toronto Section and a Fellow of the SMPTE, a member of IEEE, and an active participant on many SMPTE and other standards committees. An established industry thought-leader, he has delivered many technical papers to audiences including SMPTE, IEEE, VSF, AES, EBU, IRT, NAB and PBS. Paul is an active Radio Amateur, avid maker of many things, a curler in the winter and cyclist and gardener in the summer.

Richard Cartwright

Dr Richard Cartwright is CTO and founder of Streampunk Media. Richard holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Warwick, UK. He has previously worked at the BBC, SAM & as Technical Steering Committee Chair of the AMWA. Richard is a co-author of the JT-NM Reference Architecture and co-maintainer of the JT-NM Roadmap.

Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman has worked in the Video and Post Production industry in Los Angeles for over 25 years, having come from the UK after a career in Software Engineering. His degree is in Computers & Cybernetics from the University of Kent, Canterbury. In 1996 he joined FotoKem, holding various engineering leadership positions. During the first part of his career at FotoKem he led the team that designed the infrastructure, implemented, and then moved into a new 60,000 square foot purpose built video Building. At FotoKem he currently holds the position of Senior Vice President of Technology, in this position he is responsible for evaluating, recommending and implementing all aspects of digital technology company wide. He is immediate past chair of SMPTE Hollywood section, having served for two years, and currently is SMPTE Hollywood regional Governor.

Chinmay Chinara

Chinmay Chinara is a Graduate Student at University of Southern California pursuing my Masters in Image Processing and Computer Vision and passionate about Mixed Reality.

Floyd Christofferson

Floyd Christofferson is SVP of Products at StrongBox Data Solutions, and has been deeply involved in content management and storage workflows for over 25 years focusing on methods and technologies needed to manage massive volumes of data in different use cases across many industries. Prior to joining SBDS, Floyd worked with software and hardware companies in this space, including over 10 years at SGI, where he managed storage and data management products. In that role, he was part of the team that provided solutions used in some of the largest data environments around the world. Floyd’s background includes work at CBS Television Syndication, and Pathfire (now ExtremeReach), where he led the team that implemented a file-based syndicated content and ad distribution platform deployed into virtually every television station in the U.S.. Earlier in his career he ran Potomac Television, a news syndication and production service in Washington DC, and Manhattan Center Studios, and audio, video, graphics and performance facility in New York.

ChingTien Chu

William Cooper

Founder of the independent consultancy informitv, William provides thought leadership and advises clients around the world on digital media and technology strategy and implementation. Previously, William operationally managed online and interactive services at the BBC. William began his career as a broadcast journalist and has over 25 years of professional experience working in the television, video and digital media. He has a PhD in Communications from the Institute of Communications Studies at Leeds University, where he was one of their first researchers, specializing in ‘video literacy'.William is internationally recognised as a regular judge of international industry awards and competitions, and has been producer, chair and speaker at over a hundred international conferences. He publishes the informitv Multiscreen Index and is also editor of the influential Connected Vision newsletter.

Mark Corl

Mark Corl is the SVP of Emergent Technology Development at Triveni Digital focusing on strategies to address the large perturbations in digital TV technology, including IP-delivered content.

Mark contributes extensively to the ATSC efforts as the chair of the S34-4 Ad-hoc Group (AHG) on Runtime Environment, the vice-chair of the Personalization and Interactivity Implementation Team and as a contributing member multiple other AHGs.

During his 20-year tenure at Triveni Digital, Mark has lead both the GuideBuilder and StreamScope development efforts as well as custom projects such as the award-winning Fox network control system (ANDES). Prior to Triveni Digital, Mark had 15 years of software engineering experience at leading companies such as Texas Instruments and Xerox Corporation. Mark holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Bucknell University.

Weisi Dai

Ben Davenport

During the past decade, Ben has played a key role in some of the most complex and progressive file-based media solutions and projects in the industry and gained a wealth of experience around file-formats, workflow and the convergence of broadcast and IT. At Arvato, Ben acts as an interface between the market and the product teams, identifying technological and workplace trends, and working with product management to ensure products and solutions meet current and future needs. Before joining Arvato, Ben was Director of Marketing at Dalet, responsible for all worldwide marketing activities while also focused on the creation and delivery of the lifecycle plan for the features and functionality of the Dalet AmberFin transcoding platform. Previously, Ben was Harmonic's Solutions Marketing Manager following a number of technical marketing positions at Omneon before its acquisition by Harmonic. Ben holds a Bachelor's degree in Music & Sound Recording (Tonmeister) from the University of Surrey.

Andrew Paul Davis

Jim DeFilippis

Jim DeFilippis has worked in the broadcast/media space for 30-plus years and has been part of major broadcast/media companies ( FOX, ABC) and (6) Olympic Broadcasts. Jim has managed large technical projects, developing new technologies into working systems for television production and distribution. Jim has established a consulting practice focusing on media file work flow, sports broadcast technology, and mobile television. Jim has a MS in Electrical Engineering, is a Fellow of the SMPTE, a member of AES, SCTE and IEEE. In 2012 he received the David Sarnoff Medal from SMPTE for his innovative work in television technologies. Jim resides in Los Angeles with his lovely wife, Maggie and two children, Jake and Juliana. He likes to bike, sail and work in the garden.

Gary Demos

Gary Demos is the recipient of the 2005 Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar for lifetime technical achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has pioneered in the development of computer generated images for use in motion pictures, and in digital film scanning and recording. He was a founder of Digital Productions (1982-1986), Whitney-Demos Productions (1986-1988), and DemoGraFX (1988-2003). He is currently involved in digital motion picture camera technology and digital moving image compression. Gary is CEO and founder of Image Essence LLC, which is developing wide-dynamic-range codec technology based upon a combination of wavelets, optimal filters, and flowfields.

Anna Dining

Anna currently works in LA at Technicolor as a Support Engineer for On Location Services. She recently completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Motion Picture Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. At RIT, Anna found a passion for working within the link between art and technology. Anna has experience working as Director of Post Production for promotional sports marketing at RIT SportsZone. She also has worked freelance as a Replay Operator for in house and live sports broadcasts. Last year she traveled around the world to create a 360 video marketing piece highlighting life at all of RIT's global campuses in China, Dubai, Croatia, and Kosovo. Over summer she created an interactive VR fan experience for the Buffalo Bills. Anna is fascinated by new and emerging technology and its possibilities to tell stories in new ways. She is focused on continuing personal research in exploring the vocabulary and best practices surrounding storytelling in immersive media.

Madeline Di Nonno

Elizabeth DoVale

Elizabeth DoVale is a recent graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with a B.S. degree in Motion Picture Science. The high framerate research presented was conducted as part of her Senior Thesis Project. While at RIT, She was an active member of RIT's student chapter of SMPTE, along with working as teaching assistant for the core motion picture science courses. In 2016, she was awarded the SMPTE Louis F. Wolf Jr. Memorial Scholarship. She now works as an Associate Engineer for Dolby Laboratories' Cinema Team.

Jim Duval

Jim Duval, Director of Enterprise Strategy at Telestream, has over 15 years of experience in digital media product development. He has held positions at Avid, Wolf Coach, Anystream, and Telestream to create products for various aspects of content production workflows. Jim holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Union College and a Masters of Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Thomas Edwards

Thomas Edwards is Vice President, Engineering & Development at FOX Networks Engineering & Operations, where he works on advanced technology development, such as UHD, OTT, and live IP production systems. Previous to joining FOX in 2007, he was Senior Manager, Interconnection Engineering at PBS, where he was responsible for the engineering planning of the PBS Next Generation Interconnection System (NGIS). He also has had significant experience with streaming media production and delivery at the Internet service provider DIGEX and the IP-over-satellite company Cidera. Edwards has contributed to the NAB Engineering Handbook, the Report of the SMPTE Study Group on Media Production System Network Architecture, and the SMPTE/EBU/VSF Joint Task Force on Networked Media. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, is a board member of the Streaming Video Alliance, a member of IEEE and a SMPTE Fellow.

Thierry Fautier

As Vice President of Video Strategy at Harmonic, Thierry Fautier is in charge of defining and driving the execution of the long term strategy of Harmonic’s video business. In addition, Fautier is the current President of the Ultra HD Forum, the global organization responsible for promoting market adoption of UHD by defining industry best practices for the phased introduction of the wide set of technologies that will facilitate the next-generation viewing experience.

His previous experience at Harmonic includes leadership positions in Solutions Marketing, where his area of responsibility covered Harmonic’s major markets, including broadcast, cable, telco, DTH and OTT, as well as multiscreen initiatives. Prior to joining Harmonic, he was Vice President of Marketing for Vsofts and held various positions at Philips in Research, Engineering and Marketing. Fautier was one of the primary drivers at Philips in the creation of MPEG technology and in the development of the first MPEG-2 STB system on chip solutions. An experienced speaker, he has presented at leading industry conferences throughout the world.

Greg Feingold

Greg Feingold is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California focused on the intersection between technology and entertainment. He loves using my leadership skills and technical background to make magical things.

John Ferder

John Ferder is Director of Studio and Post-Production Engineering for the CBS Television Network in New York, where he has worked since September 1995. Together with his engineering group, he is responsible for the design, construction and support of all production and post-production facilities in the CBS Broadcast Center including the renovations for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, HD upgrades for the NFL Today, The Late Show with David Letterman, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and the 2008 construction of the new control room for the CBS Evening News and the new studio for CBS This Morning. He has worked extensively with various manufacturers in the development of fiber optic composite camera cables and connectors, and of the HD-BNC connector within the Broadcast Center Infrastructure.John received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University and, prior to CBS, worked for Philips/BTS, Roscor, Chyron, WOR-TV, the ABC Television Network, WLS-TV and WISN-TV.John was elected a Fellow of the Society in 2012. Currently a Governor for the New York Region, John has also served as a Manager for the Chicago Section, and as a Manager, Chair, and Past Chair of the New York Section. He is a member of IEEE, its Consumer Electronics and Circuits and Systems Societies, and recently served as Chair of the New York Chapter of the Broadcast Technology Society .

Julián Fernández-Campón

Julián has been working in computer-related companies since 1997 when he started with Telecommunication giant Alcatel as software developer. In 2000 he moved to the university research group that would become Tedial, where he was involved with software development and system analysis for the first versions of Tarsys products. From 2004 onwards Julián moved into project management. Since then, he has been working in system dimensioning, workflows definition and broadcast consultancy, and has been involved in most of Tedial's broadcast projects worldwide. Julián is now leading the solutions architecture team supporting pre-sales, delivery and product line management. He has a degree in Computer Science Engineer at the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering - University of Málaga, specializing in Telecommunications and Robotics. His final career project was distinguished with First-Class Honors.

Siegfried Foessel

Siegfried Foessel received his Diploma degree in Electronic Engineering in 1989. He started his professional career as a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen and was project manager for projects in process automation, image processing systems and digital camera design. In 2000 he received his Ph.D. degree on image distribution technologies for multiprocessor systems. Since 2001 he focusses on projects for digital cinema and media technologies. He was responsible for projects like ARRI D21, DCI certification test plan or JPEG2000 standardisation for Digital Cinema. Siegfried is member of various standardisation bodies and organisations like SMPTE. In ISO SC29/JPEG he is chairing the systems group. Within the EDCF he is member of the technical board. Since 2010 Siegfried is head of the department Moving Picture Technologies, spokesman of the Fraunhofer alliance Digital Cinema and vice president of the FKTG, the german equivalent to SMPTE.

John Footen

John Footen is a leader in Deloitte's Technology Strategy and Architecture Practice for TMT (Technology, Media & Telecoms) and has over 25 years of experience in the M&E industry. In his role at Deloitte, John works with a wide variety of broadcasters, studios, telecom companies and the firms that serve them. His client work focuses on technology strategy, media systems architecture and design, roadmaps, innovation and digital. He has extensive international media experience; having lived and worked in North America, Asia, and EMEA. John has chaired multiple SMPTE technology committees. He was a recipient of the prestigious SMPTE Medal for Workflow Systems and was recently named a Fellow of SMPTE. John holds degrees in computer science and film & television from New York University. He is also the co-author of the book, "The Service-Oriented Media Enterprise: SOA, BPM, and Web Services in Professional Media Systems," as well as numerous articles in industry journals and magazines.

Roger Franklin

Every day, billions of dollars of content flow through systems that rely on Crystal’s advanced software control systems that power the collection and distribution of high-value video and audio programming. Mr. Franklin’s unique background as a software engineer and an entrepreneur drives Crystal’s use of leading edge technology to solve real-world business problems.

As a software engineer, Roger specializes in identifying operational inefficiencies and designing intuitive, responsive, and reliable solutions to correct and capitalize on these opportunities. As an entrepreneur, he has produced an average 25 percent year-over-year revenue growth since taking control of the company in 2007, after its founding by his parents in 1986. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Darren Gallipeau

Darren Gallipeau is the program director for Imagine Communications’ ground-breaking Zenium platform, the pure microservices technology that forms the underpinning of the company’s next-generation software and virtualization products and services. He previously managed the encoding and live streaming products at Digital Rapids.

Giovanni Galvez

In his 8th year as part of the CPC captioning team, now part of Telestream, Giovanni Galvez is now the product manager for the Telestream captioning and subtitling products. He has helped major networks migrate to a file-based workflow for closed captioning. He has given seminars and presentations at Rochester Institute of Technology, FCC, WABE, National Association for the Deaf and the NAB conference. During these sessions he discussed new and essential file-based alternatives for closed captioning that integrate with internet video delivery platforms. In January 2016, his team received a National Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering on ‘Standardization and Pioneering Development of Non-Live Broadband Captioning'.

Massimiliano Gasparri

Massimiliano Gasparri is a partner in a digital consulting and software development company that collaborates with early stage startups by becoming part of the founding team and helping with product design, engineering development, and online marketing. Prior to vLamp, Mr. Gasparri led Warner Bros. Advanced Digital Services technology group responsible for the hosting infrastructure and the software development for direct to consumer, online and digital media applications. He oversaw the technical development of various initiatives including Blu-ray, Digital Copy, and UltraViolet. Previously, Mr. Gasparri was Director, Multimedia Technology at Warner Bros.Technical Operations, where he was involved in R&D projects and the evaluation of new technologies for film and television production, digital cinema, content protection and distribution.

Prior to joining Warner Bros. Mr. Gasparri was a project lead at Walt Disney Feature Animation where he implemented software applications to streamline post production and animation processes. His film credits include Tarzan, Dinosaur, Fantasia 2000, The Emperor’s New Groove, and Atlantis. His digital media expertise stemmed from his work at Avid Technology, where he focused on media asset management, metadata interchange, editing and visual effects applications for the film and broadcast industries. Mr. Gasparri was also part of the DiVA engineering team that in 1992 developed VideoShop, a QuickTime based non-linear editing software application.

Mr. Gasparri holds 13 U.S. patents (film restoration, image registration, digital media encoding, and 3D audio) and has 9 patents pending (voicemail system, digital media identification, content playlist and distribution). He also completed his undergraduate research thesis at Boston University developing a solution for “Extracting 3D Models of Houses and Buildings from Photographs”. Massimiliano is also the founder of Steps for a Cure, an initiative to promote fundraising for research against cancer via pursuit of athletic goals. Massimiliano’s interest for athletics extends from running marathons, to playing soccer and tennis, to skiing and just recently triathlons (6-times Ironman140.6 and 70.3 finisher).

Martyn Gates

Martyn has worked in moving-image related industries (Television broadcasting, and Security) since 1982. Martyn graduated from Ravensbourne's Television Department and joined LWT as a Broadcast Engineer. In 1991 Martyn started employment in manufacturing, which included Snell & Wilcox, and Miranda. In 2002 Martyn joined OmniPerception to develop an innovative product line, Magellan, that used advanced pattern recognition algorithms for analysing broadcast video content. Martyn is currently Course Leader in Broadcast Technology at Ravensbourne, is undertaking post-graduate research, and is an RI Patron. The societal impacts of technology, and in particular the spatio-temporal nature of the moving-image, are of significant professional importance to Martyn.

Sandy George

Sandy George received her B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Soon after, she began her career as a contractor at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center assisting a wide arena of telecommunications systems supporting video, voice, and data transmission requirements. Sandy works for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) supporting NASA’s Imagery Experts Program Office. She currently serves as chief systems architect over NASA’s video transmission networking systems. Over the course of the past twenty years, she has worked with her teammates to revolutionize NASA’s video service offerings to coincide with cutting edge solutions highlighting NASA’s unique available imagery.

Raquel Gil Rodriguez

Raquel Gil Rodrı́guez received her BS in Mathe- matics from Universitat de Barcelona and her MSc in Advanced and Professional Mathematics from Universitat de Barcelona, Spain and her Erasmus Mundus MSc in Computer Vision and Robotics from Université de Bourgogne, France. She has started her PhD in Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her current research interests are image processing.

Alex Giladi

David Ginsberg

Dave Ginsberg is a technology consultant with the over two decades experience in editing and implementing enabling technologies for leaders in the post-production and broadcast industries including Warner Bros., Disney and the Sundance Institute. An expert in IT systems, digital asset management and workflow methodologies, Dave has teamed with major industry players to help them advance their product lines. Dave's passion is using what he calls the "minimalist approach" to create efficiencies that leverage the latest technologies for increased productivity and creativity by pushing complicated processes behind the scenes so there is negligible impact on normal day-to-day operations.

Matthew Goldman

Matthew Goldman is Senior Vice President Technology, TV Compression, at Ericsson, where he is focused on video compression related products and solutions. He has been actively involved in the development of DTV systems since 1992. He was a prominent participant in the Moving Picture Experts Group where he helped create the MPEG-2 Systems standard, and he continues to be influential in other industry organizations including the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the Advanced Television Systems Committee, the Digital Video Broadcasting project and the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers. Four of his projects have been later recognized by Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards. Mr. Goldman received bachelor (high honors) and master of sciences degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds six patents related to digital video transport. A SMPTE Fellow, he is also a senior member of the IEEE and an inductee of the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. Mr. Goldman is currently serving as President on the SMPTE Board of Governors.

Corban Gossett

Corban Gossett has over 25 years in the animation industry developing Academy Award winning products and integrating feature animation pipelines for some of the world’s most beloved animated films. Currently working on a remote cloud based animation pipeline at Nimble Collective, making it easy for artists to come together to create animation, Corban was recently Co-Chair for the Digital Production Symposium. (DigiPro-’17/’18)

As a design major from Washington State University, Corban’s experience includes 15 years at DreamWorks Animation as a Supervising Technical Director and 10 years at Alias|wavefront as a Senior Product Specialist, where he helped design and implement artist-facing tools and technologies, including the Academy Award-winning animation package, Maya.

Rodney Grubbs

Rodney Grubbs began his career as a co-op motion picture photographer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center while a student at the University of Alabama. He is currently the NASA Imagery Experts Program Manager and Chairs the NASA Digital Television Working Group. He is responsible for the NASA video distribution architecture including NASA TV and internet video distribution. He has been a Principal Investigator for flights of HDTV cameras and related experiments on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS), including the first ever live HDTV program from a spacecraft. He is currently Principal Investigator for a Red Digital Cinema camera on the ISS. He chairs the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems Motion Imagery and Applications Working Group that developed the first ever international standards for video between spacecraft and from spacecraft to ground stations.

Kari Grubin

Kari Grubin joined The Walt Disney Studios in 2015 as the Vice President of Mastering for Studio Operations, where she is tasked with developing a long-term strategic vision for Mastering across the title lifecycle. She serves as the technical lead and key contributor to resolving planning conflicts, version control and general performance in the area of mastering.

In addition, Kari is the Chair of Women in Post for the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) and has been an active member of the HPA since 2002 as well as SMPTE. In 2016, Kari co-created the Young Entertainment Professionals Program (YEP) at the HPA which provides outreach and mentoring for future leaders in the Entertainment Industry.

Her early career included work in staff positions at Universal Studios Hollywood and as an assistant film editor in the 1990’s, moving to Paramount Pictures Digital Mastering Operations where her last position was Head of Technical Operations.

In 2002, she formed Global Entertainment Partners (GEP). As co-owner and General Manager, she grew the company to include 2K/HD Digital Intermediates and Mastering, Dailies services, Library Restoration and Re-Mastering, along with Editorial. In 2006, Grubin and her partner sold GEP to Deluxe Entertainment Services Group.

From 2006 – 2013, Kari was Vice President of Post and Restoration for Deluxe Digital Media, a subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group. She was responsible for business lines that included Library Restoration and Re-Mastering (4K, 2K, HD), Reality TV Finishing Services, Editorial, Digital Archive migration, Digital Intermediates and Dailies Services. As a member of the Deluxe Executive Team, she collaborated on the end-to-end services for Disney and Fox.

Kari also spent two years at NSS Labs as Sales Director focusing on the Entertainment Sector. NSS is the leading information security research and advisory company that is both an analyst firm and testing laboratory, specializing in cyber security.

Kari is a California native and the mother of two college students.

Seth Hallen

Seth Hallen is Senior Vice President Global Strategy and Business Development for Pixelogic where he is responsible for the creation and execution of the company’s worldwide end-to-end localization, digital cinema and digital media distribution services strategy. With a proven ability to lead teams toward the successful tactical execution of strategies designed to capitalize on emerging trends and opportunities, he has been building profitable, innovative and market-dominant companies for over 25 years. Prior to Pixelogic, he was, SVP Global Creative Services for Sony DADC New Media Solutions, CEO of Testronic Labs, VP North American Operations for Lightworks and producer of the Emmy Award winning TalkShow.TV. Seth is also President of the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA).

Le Han

Keith Hogan

Keith Hogan is the CTO for Pixspan, where he develops technology for making high resolution images as small as possible. He is currently working with studios and post production houses to advance the workflow for video storage and transmission. He has a background in Big Data and search as a former VP at Ask.com, as well as a Director of Software Development for networking products with Motorola/Telogy. Keith lives and works in the Washington D.C. area.

Hans Hoffmann

Hans Hoffmann was born in Munich, Germany. He holds a diploma in telecommunication engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. studies at Brunel University West London, at the School of Engineering and Design. From 1993 to 2000, Hoffmann worked at the Insitut fuer Rundfunktechnik in research and development for new television production technologies. In 2000, he joined the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) as a senior engineer in the technical department. Hoffmann has chaired the EBU project groups P/BRRTV and P/PITV, which were both involved in standardization activities such SDTI and file formats. He has chaired the SMPTE technology committee on Networks and File Management and has served as Engineering Director, Television. He has been involved in EBU activities on high-definition television production and emission and set up the HDTV testing laboratory at the EBU. Hoffmann is a fellow of SMPTE and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), FKT (Germany), and the Society for Information Display (SID).

Callum Hughes

An experienced technologist, Callum has been fortunate to work with some of the most disruptive and innovative technology leaders within several different industries. As a tenured Amazonian, Callum has worked on cutting edge, Cloud-based technologies for many years, and has helped design and implement solutions that have improved the effectiveness of workflows and processes, all the while striving to continue delighting customers.

Dominic Jackson

Dominic Jackson is on the product management team for Telestream's enterprise products. Dom started his career in the field of industrial automation where he specialized in implementing automated inspection systems using machine vision. He later moved into the field of digital video. Dom has been working in the field of file based video at Telestream for almost ten years. He holds a B.Eng (hons) in Electrical engineering from the University of Sheffield in the UK.

James Just

Jiranant Kanjanagawin

Jeff Kember

Jeff Kember is a Technical Director for Media in the Office of the CTO at Google. His high performance computing background helps media and entertainment clients make efficient use of Google's Cloud Platform for compute and storage workloads. Previously, Jeff spent two years as a Cloud Solutions Architect at Google and has specialized in broadcast, VR, gaming and visual effects workloads.

Prior to joining Google, he led large teams as a Computer Graphics Supervisor at Framestore. Over his 20 year career in film and gaming, he has also worked at a variety of companies including Pixar, Sony Imageworks, Industrial Light & Magic, Blizzard Entertainment and Animal Logic. As a CG Supervisor he was responsible for both technical and artistic process decisions that bring the artistic vision of clients to the screen. Favourite credits include The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Sucker Punch, X-Men, World of Warcraft, and Star Wars II.

YunHyoung Kim

Yunhyoung Kim received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in 2004, and Master of Science in computer science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2007. He is a research engineer in Technical Research Institute at Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) since 2007. He participated in standardizing several DTV standards such as Open Hybrid TV (OHTV; hybrid broadcast broadband TV standard in Korea) and Assistive Services for the Vision and Hearing Impaired. His research interests are an efficient metadata management and a content delivery via both the terrestrial broadcasting network and the Internet. He is also interested in economic analysis of content business as a Ph.D student in Information and Industrial Engineering at Yonsei University since 2014.

Eric King

Eric oversees the technical direction of Deluxe's digital group. Throughout his 14-year tenure at the company he has been at the forefront of technological implementation, with a focus on emerging technologies and production efficiencies. He has worked on solutions for formats ranging from Windows and Real Media in the early days of streaming through more advanced formats that today include 4K/UHD, IMF, HDR and HEVC. As Director of Data Operations for Deluxe's Restoration group he oversaw mastering and archival functions, creating several DI validation workflows and extending the service as client demand grew. He has been a key driver in the realization of mature workflows involving creation, archive, and QC, and continues to develop with a mind towards process and quality improvement through innovation and consistency. Eric started his career in 2000 as an Encoder at Sonic Foundry. He is a SMPTE member and AMIA participant.

Al Kovalick

Al Kovalick is a Principal Member and Founder of Media Systems Consulting. Previously, he was a Corporate Fellow at Avid, CTO of Pinnacle Systems and Video Systems Architect at HP. He is an active speaker, educator and has penned the book Video Systems in an IT Environment – The Basics of Networked Media and File-Based Workflows (2009). Al has an MSEE degree from the University of California at Berkeley, holds 18 US and foreign patents and has authored more than 50 papers. He is a SMPTE Fellow and recipient of the David Sarnoff Gold Medal.

Sara Kram

Sara Kram began her professional career in entertainment three years ago in post-production at Post Haste Digital, starting first as a coordinator and later moving into a project management position, where she focused on managing audio mastering for both film and television.

In summer of 2016, she was accepted into the inaugural class of the Young Entertainment Professional (YEP) program through the Hollywood Professional Association (HPA). As a member of the YEP program, she has spent the last year learning from and being inspired by incredible members of the HPA, and her personal mentor Kari Gruben, who helped guide her through the transition into the content creation side of the industry. Thanks to the YEP program, she has spent the last year as an active SMPTE and HPA member, and intends to continue both memberships beyond the program.

In March of 2017, she accepted a position with Twentieth Century Fox, working on the Feature Localization team, where she works to prepare both catalog and current release features for international distribution. She is looking forward to a long career with TCF.

Sara Kudrle

Sara Kudrle is currently the Product Marketing Manager for Playout at Imagine Communications. Sara received her degree in Computer Science with a Minor in Mathematics from California State University Chico. Sara's 18 plus years in the Broadcast industry started at Tektronix where she worked in VideoTele.com. From there, she joined Continental Electronics as a software engineer, working within the TV Transmitter group where she was responsible for developing exciter control software. From there she joined NVISION/Miranda/Grass Valley and was responsible for several projects within the Router Control group. Sara has authored several papers for NAB, PBS and SMPTE conferences and has been published in the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal and Broadcast Engineering. Sara's paper on "Fingerprinting for Solving A/V Synchronization Issues within Broadcast Environments,” received the 2012 Journal Award for best article. Sara is active within SMPTE serving on several committees and within the standards community. Sara is a SMPTE Fellow and serves as a SMPTE Director of Education as well as an Annual Technical Conference Chair. She is also a member of IEEE.

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Barbara Lange

Barbara Lange joined SMPTE in January 2010 as Executive Director. She is responsible for executing the Board of Governors’ strategic vision to increase the Society’s visibility and relevance in an ever-changing media ecosystem. The Society focuses on three pillars of activity in Standards, Membership, and Education and the various programs within each. Highlights of Ms. Lange’s tenure include successfully launching the Society’s first digital library of its complete intellectual property back to 1916; adding Executive events in Europe; publishing regular updates on Standards activities; overseeing the establishment of the newest Sections in over a decade in India, UK, and within the US; and successfully establishing the Society’s Next Century development fund as part of its Centennial in 2016. Prior to joining SMPTE, Ms. Lange developed a focus on product management as a scholarly publishing executive, often speaking at industry conferences. She spent her career at the world’s largest technical association, IEEE, and the German scholarly publisher, Springer-Verlag. Ms. Lange holds Bachelors of Arts in Chemistry and German from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA and completed the Executive Development Program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

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Kyunghan Lee

Kyunghan Lee is currently a team manager at KAI Inc. He received his M.S. degree in the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST. He received his B.S. degree in Industrial Design in 2011, respectively, from KAIST. His research interest includes stereoscopic visualization and video codecs.

Christopher Lennon

Chris Lennon serves as President & CEO of MediAnswers. He is a veteran of over 25 years in the broadcasting business. He also serves as Standards Director for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. He is known as the father of the widely-used Broadcast eXchange Format (BXF) standard. He also participates in a wide array of standards organizations, including SMPTE, SCTE, ATSC, and others. In his spare time, he's a Porsche racer, and heads up a high performance driving program.

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David Long

David Long joined the faculty of the School of Film and Animation in 2007, where he is currently Program Chair and Associate Professor for the BS Motion Picture Science program. His research interests at RIT include engineering multispectral video capture and display systems and studying variability in human color vision for artistic applications.

Prior to RIT, Long worked as a Development Engineer and Imaging Scientist with Eastman Kodak’s Entertainment Imaging Division. At Kodak, his primary responsibilities included new product development and image science and systems integration for the motion picture group, focusing on film and digital imaging products. His work has earned him numerous patents and a 2008 Scientific & Technical Academy Award for contributions made to the design of Vision2 films.

Outside of RIT, Long is an officer of the Rochester Section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and is chair of the Board of the Little Theatre in Rochester.

Long has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Materials Science from the University of Rochester.

Howard Lukk

Howard Lukk is SMPTE’s director of standards and engineering. Lukk was formerly a writer and director at the independent film production and management company Pannon Entertainment, where he has worked on short films and provided technical consulting and education for clients.A SMPTE Fellow, Lukk has served the Society in numerous volunteer roles including Technology Committee co-chair, Working Group chair, document editor; and also director of the Moving Images documentary project.

John Mailhot

John Mailhot has been working in the field of digital High-Definition Television systems since its North American inception in 1990, first as part of the AT&T-Zenith Team, then as technical lead for the Grand Alliance encoder, and later as engineering manager and general manager of Lucent Digital Video, Aastra Digital Video, Harris Broadcast, and now Imagine Communications. Today John is CTO of Networking and Infrastructure at Imagine Communications. He has two degrees from MIT.

John Maizels

John Maizels combines life as a media versatilist and technologist in television and radio, with that of presenter, technical writer, sound editor, author and studio/OB operational crew. When not completely confused by this life, he teaches multicamera studio TV at college level and does voice overs. He first tasted compressed digital video as a pioneer of distance education and business television, and developed virtual routing control systems for broadcast studio use. John is highly active in development of education and training for technologists, serves on the SMPTE Board as Governor for Asia/Australia Region, and is a Fellow of the SMPTE.

Kenichiro Masaoka

Kenichiro Masaoka received his B.S. in electronics engineering and M.S. in energy engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1996. He is a Principal Research Engineer for the Advanced Television Systems Research Division, NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories, Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2009. He worked with Professors Mark Fairchild and Roy Berns for a six-month residency as a Visiting Scientist at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory (MCSL) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2012. He contributed to the design of wide-gamut system colorimetry for ultrahigh definition television (UHD-TV) as specified in Rec. ITU-R BT.2020. He received the Society of Information Display (SID) 2017 Special Recognition Award for his leading contributions to the research and development of a wide-color-gamut UHD-TV display system and gamut-area metrology.

Shailendra Mathur

Shailendra Mathur is the Chief Architect in the office of the CTO at Avid. His current responsibility includes design and architecture of the Avid Everywhere Platform,and Avid products and services. Most recently he oversaw the development of the resolution independence capabilities of the Avid Platform and products. With more than 20 years of experience in the media industry, he has engineered editing, compositing, CG-animation, asset management, video-server and broadcast graphics products. As a technologist he is interested in studying both the art and science behind subjects such as visual processing, color management, codecs, metadata and heterogeneous computing. He has contributed more than 25 scientific papers and presentations in these areas and holds 5 patents.

Sean McCarthy

Dr. Sean McCarthy brings a unique convergence of expertise in signal processing and the neurobiology of human vision to digital video. Previously, Dr. McCarthy drove advancements in state-of-the-art of video processing, compression and practical vision science as Fellow at ARRIS. He held similar responsibilities as Fellow of the Technical Staff at Motorola, and as Chief Scientist at both Modulus Video, which was acquired by Motorola, and at ViaSense, a University of California Berkeley spin-off that developed commercial applications of the human visual system. He earned a B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic, and earned his Ph.D. in bioengineering jointly at University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco.

John McCoskey

John McCoskey is an industry-recognized technology, operations and policy executive, with background spanning broad media & entertainment, broadcast, satellite, intellectual property and Internet technologies. He is currently Industry Lead Executive for the Communications, Media & Technology sector at Eagle Hill Consulting.Previous roles include EVP & CTO at the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) where he led global technology policy and strategy; the first-ever CTO at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); VP, Product Development at Comcast; CTO and co-founder at Brief Original Broadcasts (BOB); and SVP, Technology and CTO at Discovery Communications. Mr. McCoskey holds two MS degrees from Johns Hopkins and a BSEE from Bucknell University. He is an inventor with 24 issued & 27 pending U.S. utility patents. Mr. McCoskey and his PBS team received a Technology and Engineering Emmy® award in 2010 for pioneering work on digital television workflows.

Julie McDonald

Julie M. McDonald is Director of Business Development at Nimble Collective, an animation in the cloud platform start-up. During 2016 Julie was Engineering Manager for the Silicon Valley firm, bringing its SaaS animation platform tool to BETA, to transform the animation industry, lower barriers to entry for new teams and deliver an integrated, end-to-end cloud based animation creation tool to the world.

Julie’s career started at the investment firm Robertson Colman & Stephen, reseacher to the Semiconductor Analyst Team. She then moved to University College London's department of Upper Atmospheric Physics on a contract for NASA/AMES, supporting the analysis of photons emanating from the comet Halley over North America. In 1994, Julie was hired by Steve Jobs / Bonnie Arnold at Pixar Animation Studios (Toy Story, a Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Geri's Game, where she created the digital editorial to animation and film-out work flows, initiated Pixar's digital backlot, broke ground on its archive efforts, contributed to the design of its shot tracking system.

From 2012 through 2014, as Director of Animation Production at Viz Media, she led the animation production business unit in a turn around to bring the firm profitable, driving costs down to deliver on margins while executing the launch of hundreds of animé episodes on Hulu, CRACKLE, Netflix and XBox, as well as releasing over 50 multi-disc DVDs and BDs per year, and negotiating ADR in Latin America. Julie works closely with operations / finance departments to analyze costs, increase efficiencies and transform enterprises to achieve strategic goals. A media supply chain expert she has released day and date global media for name brand firms in over 10 countries.

Julie has a BA in Semiotics / French Literature from UCSD and an MBA in Global Finance from Mills College. She writes an animation industry blog & consults for global tech firms. She supports equity in the world’s media and technology industries and works to transform global industries into accessible markets for entering artists, especially women and girls around the world.

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Éric Minoli

Eric Minoli is a serial innovator and disruptor, who combines the creativity and risk-taking of a digital media entrepreneur with the meticulous planning and organizational vision of a process engineer. For 20 years he has fearlessly pushed the limits of what is possible in the word of audio-visual production. After immigrating to Canada and joining the provincial public broadcaster TVOntario, Eric helped plan and implement the spin-off of French-language broadcaster TFO. In his role as VP Technologies and Optimization, he currently manages a team of 70 people responsible for all technical and production capabilities as well as related work flow and process planning. Eric has overturned traditional broadcast practices, decentralizing post-production by installing Adobe Premiere editing packages on more than 60 laptops, which radically altered workflow and productivity. Most recently, Eric's disruptive influence has manifested in the creation of the Laboratoire d'Univers Virtuels (LUV).

Masayuki Miyazaki

Masayuki Miyazaki has been engaged in development of 8K production devices taking advantage of experience in operations of equipments for broadcast since 1994, when he joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). He has a expertise in designing outside production vehicles and equipments. Graduated Sophia University in 1994 where he had majored in Electric Electronical Engineering.

Mac Moore

Mac Moore is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Conductor Technologies, a cloud rendering company focused on delivering both scalability and cost efficiency to the M&E industry. He helped launch Conductor into general production availability in August, which touts more than 33 million core hours of rendering on the service, to date. Mac brings his years of SaaS experience from Autodesk, where running a worldwide sales team, he was instrumental in the industry migration from perpetual to consumption-based models. Now with Conductor, Mac is helping the industry further realize the value behind cloud native pipelines, and required steps to get there.

Oliver Morgan

Oliver has 35 years experience as an engineer, manager and technical strategist in broadcast television, developing and introducing innovative systems for post production, in North America, Europe and Japan. Oliver is a principal architect of the Material Exchange Format (MXF), the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) and the SMPTE Metadata Registry. He shepherded these technologies through standardization when serving as Chair of the SMPTE Wrappers and Metadata Technology Committee. Oliver is a a Fellow of SMPTE. Oliver holds 10 patents in television and related metadata technologies; before entering the television industry, Oliver studied Theoretical Physics at Oxford University.

Michelle Munson

Michelle is co-inventor of the Aspera FASP™ transport technology and co-founded Aspera in 2004 along with engineering colleague Serban Simu. She led the company's direction as CEO from 2004 through acquisition by IBM in 2014 until May 2017.

Michelle holds several patents and is a frequent speaker in the areas of content transport innovation including high speed file delivery, streaming, and cloud infrastructure. She was the 2016 Charles Swartz awardee and is a SMPTE Fellow. Michelle has dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Kansas State University and was a Goldwater Scholar for achievement in Science and Mathematics, and later a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science.

In 2016 she was named the IABM Woman Entrepreneur of the Year and TV NewsCheck Woman of the Year, and she was named one of the Most Influential Women in Business by the SF Business Times in 2017. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and is an active trustee for the National 4-H Council and 2017 4-H Luminary for her leadership with youth.

Yuji Nagata

Yuji Nagata is currently an engineer of NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation) .He was recieved the B.E degeees in 2006 from Waseda University,Tokyo Japan.In 2006,he joined NHK and built his career as a video engineer through TV program production.

Raj Nair

Raj is a part of the CTO executive team in Business Unit Media at Ericsson. Raj has over 20 years of experience in the software and telecommunications industries including Internet Routing, CDNs, OTT Video/TV Delivery and mobile and unmanaged device security. Previously, he was CTO & co-founder of Azuki Systems (acquired by Ericsson), the premium content delivery platform provider for leading service and content providers. Prior to Azuki, Raj was the Chief Scientist of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), the first web content switching company. Raj has several patents in the telecommunications area and received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.

Tomohiro Nakamura

Tomohiro Nakamura is a research engineer in the Advanced Television Systems Research Division, at NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories. He is working on the research of ultrahigh-definition television systems and his research fields include the development of camera systems, image sensors and digital signal processing. Nakamura joined NHK in 2008 after receiving B.E in electrical engineering from Waseda University on 2006 and M.E degrees in computer science and engineering from Waseda University on 2008, respectively. He has been engaged in research of UHDTV camera systems since 2012. He is a member of Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers of Japan (ITE).

Loren Nielsen

H. Loren Nielsen is Co-Founder and President of Entertainment Technology Consultants (ETC), where she crafts strategy and content for media companies developing cutting-edge digital technology in content creation, distribution and exhibition. With over twenty-five years of management and marketing of start-up ventures and products in the technology and entertainment industries, Ms. Nielsen has been instrumental in the development of digital cinema and next generation cinema technologies. Her groundbreaking work with Texas Instruments’ DLP division, and with other D-Cinema pioneers, was instrumental to the worldwide acceptance of digital cinema. Loren currently contributes to a variety of next generation technologies including emmisive displays, UHD, high dynamic range (HDR), laser illumination, LED cinema and immersive sound. She is in demand as a producer of high-quality show reels and for her production of technical marketing and demonstration reels for ETC clients.

Ms. Nielsen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Professional Association and serves on their programming and membership committees. She is a co-founder of the HPA’s Women in Post and Young Entertainment Professionals, and serves on the Next Generation Cinema Technology committee for the American Society of Cinematographers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Loren is a recipient of the inaugural ShoWest Digital Cinema Pioneer Award and is an active member of SMPTE, the UHDA and Advanced Imaging Society.

Conrado Niemeyer

Conrado is a passionate technologist who believes people and technology can help solve our greatest problems. With a full stack range of skills in technology areas including application development, system administration, system architecture, cloud technologies, IT consulting, and information security. Current he is the CTO of the [RE]DESIGN GROUP and previously lead the Security Architecture team at GE Oil & Gas, and was CISO at Sacred Heart University.

Jean-Francois Nivart

Jean-Francois is passionate about images, technology and entrepreneurship.With his extended knowledge of digital imaging, he has more than 25 years of experience in young enterprises. His positions have evolved from product manager, CTO, and CEO to board member in companies like EVS, XDC, intoPIX, and FlyingCam. Jean-Francois Nivart is today the founder and the leader of Image Matters. As specialist in product design and marketing with extensive experience in digital cinema, broadcasting and industrial vision, Jean-François brings an innovative vision to the image market.

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Tom Ohanian

Tom Ohanian is a senior business development executive and digital transformation strategist. He is an Academy Award and two-time Emmy award recipient for scientific and technical invention and holds multiple patents. He has been involved in the creation of products that have led to industry transformations in post-production, terrestrial IP distribution, and virtualized broadcast infrastructures.

Eric Openshaw

Eric is a technical executive who understands the complexities of the new age broadcast media landscape - an environment where the intersection of IT, cloud computing and broadcast engineering brings as many questions as it does answers. Eric is able to look forward and create innovation through the application of technology that in many cases is years from industry standard. Combined with a natural ability to lead, Eric has helped bring Pebble Beach Systems to the forefront of the broadcast automation and integrated channel industry, as a key software architect of the company's flagship product, Marina Enterprise Automation. More recently, as General Manager for the Americas, Eric has driven growth, innovation and thought leadership to establish Pebble Beach Systems as an industry leader in North America. Eric finished top of his class in a BEng from UNSW, Australia. He has been working in broadcast automation for over 13 years and is a respected expert in his field.

Kylee Peña

Originally from the Midwest, Kylee Peña spent nearly a decade as a video editor before moving into post-production technology in Los Angeles. There she applies her knowledge of a working editorial department to the technical and creative aspects of workflow design and management on shows such as Jane the Virgin (CW) and Scorpion (CBS) at Bling Digital (The SIM Group) in Hollywood.Kylee serves as the President for Blue Collar Post Collective, a non-profit organization that seeks to support emerging talent in post production. She is also an Associate Editor for CreativeCOW.net, writing technical analyses and interviewing notable film personalities while also bringing light to important topics like gender equality and mental health. Peña has spoken about these subjects in classrooms and organizations, on numerous podcasts and Adobe's "Make It" talk show, and at NAB. She holds degrees in video production and applied computer science from Indiana University and Purdue University.

Elizabeth Pieri

Elizabeth Pieri is an Associate Engineer at Dolby Laboratories, based in Sunnyvale, CA. She received her B.S. degree in Motion Picture Science at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2016. She works for the Imaging Applied Research Team inside Dolby's Advanced Technology Group, focusing on vision science as it relates to the technology involved with High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamut displays. She previously interned as a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress in 2015, where she developed software for measuring the color accuracy of digitized images.

Peter Poers

After graduation in "Technology of electronic circuits" at Humboldt-University Berlin in 1988 I started my work in East-German Record Company. From 1990 to 1994 I was working with Sony Broadcast & Communications for Professional Audio. Beginning with 1995 I joined Jünger Audio-Studiotechnik GmbH. Since about ten years I am managing the company. I am member of EBU PLOUD and also ATSC TG1 and I did work on audio related topics (dynamic range control, loudness control, surround audio, 3D audio).

Adithya Prakash

Adithya Prakash is a Senior Software Engineer in the Cloud Media Systems team at Netflix Inc. He has previously worked in the multimedia teams at Qualcomm Inc. and Ittiam Systems. His interests lie in developing Software Engineering solutions to Video and Image processing problems, Computer Vision, Machine learning and Distributed Systems. He received a Bachelors in Engineering in Electronics and Communication from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India.

Tyler Pruitt

Tyler works for SpectraCal/Portrait Displays, where he develops test methods for evaluation and calibration of all types of display technologies. His main focus recently has been HDR display metrology. For his company's HDR efforts, he was involved in development of calibration methods and workflows for Dolby Vision, HDR10, and is leading Color Volume metrology implementations in their display calibration and evaluation software, CalMAN. He was a co-author of the 2016 SID paper titled “Characterizing High Dynamic Range Display System Properties in the Context of Today’s Flexible Ecosystems".

Peter Putman

Pete Putman is a technology consultant to Kramer Electronics USA; engaged in product development and testing, technology training, and educational marketing programs. Pete is also a contributing editor for Sound and Communications magazine, the leading trade publication for commercial AV systems integrators. He publishes HDTVexpert.com, a Web blog focused on HDTV, digital media, wireless, and display technologies. Pete holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Seton Hall University, and a Master of Science degree in Television and Film from Syracuse University. He is an InfoComm Senior Academy Instructor for the International Communications Industries Association (ICIA), and was named ICIA's Educator of the Year for 2008. He is a member of both The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and Society for Information Display (SID).

Jaclyn Pytlarz

Jaclyn Pytlarz is a Senior Engineer of Applied Vision Science at Dolby Laboratories in Sunnyvale, CA where she has worked inside Dolby’s Advanced Technology group since 2014. Her research includes vision science surrounding technologies for High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamut displays. Her main focus is developing color mapping and display management algorithms to help maintain the director’s experience on a wide variety of displays under various ambient conditions. She holds a B.S. degree in Motion Picture Science from Rochester Institute of Technology where her foundation in color and imaging science began.

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Reza Rassool

Reza Rassool had many notable roles that include CTO of Kwaai Oak, whose CTO-as-a-service™ business claims credit for $1B in start-up exits; Gathr Films CTO, where he developed a crowd-sourced theatrical distribution - 'first $1M+ box office thru crowd-sourcing' ; Zya CTO where he developed a music creation cloud which raised $48M in funding; Director of Software at Second Sight, developing a bionic eye. Its IPO in 2014 achieved a market cap of $0.6B; Chief Engineer at Widevine Technologies (sold to Google in 2010 for $150M); Chief Engineer at Micropolis / Streamlogic, developed the world's first commercial VOD server and a family of VDRs; Technical Manager of Lightworks – developed an OSCAR/EMMY winning editing system, sold to Tektronix.

Reza gained a B.Sc. in Physics from King's College, has 23 patents granted, and has numerous papers published.

William Redmann

Bill Redmann is a creative technologist and inventor, designing and developing social, interactive, and new media technologies for Technicolor, where he is a Fellow and Senior Software Engineer.His experience ranges from virtual reality, telepresence systems, entertainment simulators, theme park attractions, holography, other 3D techniques, seminal wearables technology, and puzzle design for the alternate reality games The Beast and I Love Bees. In the other 80 hours of the week, he dabbles in electric vehicle infrastructure and driver safety systems. Bill has been granted about 34 patents, is an active member of SMPTE, and has a Masters in Engineering from UCLA.

Abdul Rehman

Dr. Abdul Rehman has more than ten years of research and development experience in the areas of image & video processing, quality assessment and compression. He is a co-founder of SSIMWAVE, a company dedicated to providing viewer intelligence to deliver the ultimate viewing experience. He leads the research and development of SSIMWAVE's state-of-the-art video quality-of-experience measurement and optimization products. He has made many new breakthroughs in the field of perceptual video quality assessment by enhancing accuracy, speed, applicability and flexibility of video quality-of-experience algorithms. He has more than thirty research publications and patents the field. Dr. Abdul Rehman holds a PhD degree in Information and Communication Systems from the University of Waterloo, Canada and a Masters degree in Communications Engineering from Technical University Munich, Germany.

Aimée Ricca

Aimée Ricca began her career in music management in the 1990s and has worked with artists from Cheap Trick to Soundgarden. She later went on to Clearview Cinemas where she directed all special events for the chain of 54 locations and 258 screens in the NY Metro-Area, including the Ziegfeld Theatre. In the 2000s, Ricca was heavily involved in the digital cinema roll-out and theatrical distribution of alternative content including Pearl Jam Immagine in Cornice, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Runnin’ Down a Dream and PBS’ Great Performances. Ricca joined SMPTE in 2012 and directs marketing and communication.

Martin Richards

Martin J. Richards is Chief Architect, Cinema at Dolby Laboratories, where he works on imaging products for the Cinema Business Group. Since joining Dolby in 1986, he has been involved in the design of a number of products, including Dolby® Digital sound on film, Dolby Digital Cinema, Dolby 3D, and high dynamic range Dolby Cinema Projection. Prior to Dolby, Marty worked at Ampex Corporation in the optical signal processing section of the R&D department, and in the Data Systems group working on high density optical and magnetic recorders. In 2007, Marty received an A.M.P.A.S. Sci-Tech Award of Commendation for conversion of film from silver-based to cyan dye tracks. In 2010, he received the Lumière award for the Dolby 3D system. In 2015, the Dolby Vision Projector received an HPA Engineering Excellence Award. Marty holds 30 US patents on a variety of subjects, from electronics to optics. Marty holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from Oregon State University, and is a member of SMPTE.

Pierre Routhier

Former Aerospace Engineer Pierre Hugues Routhier, Eng., M.Eng., is a specialist in advanced imaging technologies.He has developed innovative solutions and workflows for studios and post-production facilities in all fields of advanced imaging: Ultra-High Resolution, High Dynamic Range, High Frame Rate,Stereoscopic 3D, etc...He is credited with more than a dozen patents related to advanced imaging and is published in several industry papers.He is currently working with major studios and broadcasters on production, research and training related to advanced imaging.

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Tim Ryan

Tim Ryan is senior software and systems architect for the enterprise and cinema display business within DLP® products at Texas Instruments. He has been part of the DLP Cinema® team at TI since 2002.

Sriram Sethuraman

Dr. Sriram Sethuraman is the CTO at Ittiam and a Technologist and Ittiam Fellow. Sriram’s many accomplishments include a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, being a member of MPEG standards committee, being a senior member of IEEE, chairing several international conference sessions, serving on industry forums, more than 25 issued patents (with several pending patents) and more than 30 international publications. At Ittiam, Sriram has been instrumental in guiding product development strategies and architectures across several generations of class leading video solutions. Being the face of Ittiam’s technical capabilities, his technology insights and inputs are immensely valued by Ittiam’s partners and customers in the industry.

Andrew Shulkind

Andrew Shulkind is a co-founder of HeadcaseVR and sought-after expert on virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality (VR, AR, and MR) content capture and creation. Prior to co-founding HeadcaseVR in 2014, Shulkind worked in feature films and broadcast advertising for clients such as Paramount, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Apple, Adidas, AT&T, Budweiser, Google, Old Spice, and Samsung. He received the International Cinematographer’s Guild (ICG) Emerging Cinematographer Award in 2013, Studio Daily Prime Award in 2014, and Studio Daily Top 50 Award for Creativity and Innovation in 2016. With his move into VR, Shulkind leveraged his experience working with 3D images, miniatures, and visual effects (VFX) to design a 32K RAW, 360˚ VR camera rig that today remains the industry’s highest-resolution professional-grade VR acquisition device.

Christian Siegert

With a strong background in information technology and computer science, Christian has been at the cutting edge of developments in the media industry for well over a decade. Having previ-ously founded and grown his own company offering compliance recording solutions, Christian joined Arvato Systems as Product Manager in 2014. As an evangelist of cloud technologies and business models, Christian is now driving the development of the latest generation of media management products and has overall responsibility arvato's VPMS, the Video Production Management Suite.

Leon Silverman

Leon D. Silverman is General Manager, Digital Studio for the Walt Disney Studios, which provides post-production on-lot digital infrastructure, digital platform distribution services, and workflow expertise as part of Studio Operations. For over 35 years, Silverman has helped introduce new post-production technologies, services and workflows to Hollywood’s creative and studio community. Silverman is past president and founder of the Hollywood Professional Association (formerly Hollywood Post Alliance), the industry trade association focused on the professional media content creation industry. In November 2015, Silverman was named recipient of HPA’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. He currently serves as SMPTE Governor-at-Large and was named a Fellow of the Society in November of 2003.

Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith is the Senior Vice President of New Technologies for FOX Network Engineering and Operations. In this role he is supporting Broadcast and Cable Networks, Production and Post Production operating groups in addressing their challenges with new technologies focusing on standards, regulations and lab proof of concept testing and evaluation. Prior to joining FOX he was SVP of global broadcast technology and standards for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. where he provided technical guidance for the company's domestic and international teams. He previously held positions as SVP of Broadcast Engineering Research and Development at Turner, SVP & CTO at Speer Communications, and Supervisor of Communications Design and Development Engineering for Lockheed Space Operations at the Kennedy Space Center. Smith also supported initiatives for Turner Broadcasting that were recognized by The Computer World Honors program with the 2005, 21st Century Achievement Award for Media Arts and Entertainment and a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for Pioneering Efforts in the Development of Automated, Server-Based Closed Captioning Systems. In 2007 He received the SMPTE Progress Medal and 2008 he received the Storage Visions Conference Storage Industry Service Award.

James Snyder

James Snyder is a digital media engineering, data & media archiving, preservation, production and project management specialist. His 34 years' experience includes television, film, radio, internet & data technologies and covers the gamut from traditional analog to cutting edge digital data, audio and video technologies. His career spans work in the commercial, non-commercial and government sectors, and has a lifelong fascination with media, film, technology, engineering & history. Mr. Snyder currently serves as the Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) located on the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia (http://www.loc.gov/avconservation/packard/). He is responsible for all the audio, video and film preservation and digitization technologies, including long-term planning & implementation, long-term data preservation planning & implementation, technology services to the United States Congress and organizations on Capitol Hill, as well as standards participation and technology liaison with media content producers.

Megan Stacey

Megan Stacey is a Los Angeles based cinematographer with a background in feature films, commercials and music videos. She was born and raised in Sacramento where she discovered her passion for technology and film making. After graduating from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television in Los Angeles, she completed a number of feature films and series as a cinematographer and 2nd unit cinematographer. In 2014 she was awarded the Ian Connor Cinematography Award, which is presented to an individual who exemplifies passion for the power and beauty of the cinematic image. She has also been a mentee of Bill Bennett, ASC since January 2014 and continues to work closely with him on various projects.

Kumar Subramanian

Kumar Subramanian is founding Chief Executive of MediaMelon.

He has previously served in management roles in the corporate development groups at Alcatel Lucent and at Digital Island, and as an investment banker focusing on M&A transactions in the telecoms and technology industry for UBS Warburg in New York and London. Kumar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and an MBA from Duke University.

Cho Sungmin

Mr. Sungmin is a Sogang University Graduate School of Media Ph.D and currently is the Korean Film Council Standard Development Team Manager.

Greg Taieb

Greg oversees development for Deluxe’s end-to-end localization platform for scripting, dubbing and audio. A localization generalist, he has been working in the field for 15 years, starting as a QC operator, then mixing localized versions of films and TV shows which included one of the first Dolby Atmos titles for home release and several seasons of the Star Wars: Clone Wars series in 13 languages, as well as directing English dubs of foreign content. In 2011 he joined Paramount Pictures where he spent five years overseeing audio mastering and subtitles. Greg came to Deluxe from Sfera (acquired by Deluxe in 2016) where he designed and built tools for its localization platform.

Kent Terry

Kent Terry is a Senior Manager, Sound Technology in Dolby Laboratories Office of the CTO. He joined Dolby in 1992 and has worked a variety of positions in Engineering and Research. He was a key member of the team that developed the Emmy award winning Dolby Digital system, and he helped build the first working prototypes of the ATSC 1.0 standard. In addition, he was part of the team that developed Dolby E for distribution of multichannel audio in broadcast networks, also an Emmy award winning technology. He has also worked on many solutions for problems in broadcasting, such as lip sync, and development of voice technology. His current focus is expanding support for advanced audio services in live production environments, including standards for audio and audio metadata over IP. He is currently active on SMPTE standards committees, and has been a key contributor to several SMPTE standards over the years, including standards for conveying coded audio and other data on AES3 interfaces. He holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a member of SMPTE and the AES. He is the recipient of the 2011 SMPTE Journal Award for his paper “Detection and Correction of Lip-Sync Errors using Audio and Video Fingerprints”.

Yvonne Thomas

Yvonne Thomas graduated in Television Technologies and Electronic Media Engineering from University of applied Science Wiesbaden (HSRM), Germany, in Oct. 2010. She received a prominent award of the ARD/ZDF Academy for her thesis in September 2011 at the IFA in Berlin.Following these studies she started beginning of 2011 to work at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in the Technology & Innovation Department as Project Manager. She was responsible for projects and strategic programs on 3D and Future Television technologies, such as UHDTV or LED studio lighting. Since September 2015 Yvonne joined arvato Systems´ New Media division. As a Product Manager she is responsible for the frontend “MediaPortal” of the MAM system VPMS (Video Production Management Suite) and follows new trends in the media landscape, like analytics and machine learning.At NAB 2017 Yvonne was presented with the annual Technology Women to Watch Award from TVNews Check.

Simon Thompson

Simon is a Project R&D Engineer and has worked at BBC R&D for 12 years researching RF spectrum management, grid computing, advanced RF design, additional services for DVB broadcasts, OJEC procurements for cameras and the New Broadcasting House newsroom and video workflow optimisation. He currently works on the HDR research team undertaking fundamental research into human perception which formed part of the new ITU-R BT.2100 standard, has organised numerous practical tests and demonstrations and has a patent filed related to SDR to HDR conversion.Simon is currently a member of the European Broadcasting Union's Beyond HD group and has previously been a member of the Digital Television Group's Production Technology and Service Information groups.Simon holds a Master of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton where he was sponsored by BAE Systems and is a Chartered Engineer.

Gerald Tiu

Henri Toukomaa

Henri Toukomaa, has a MSc degree from Tampere University (Finland). He is currently working on Immersive Audio Technologies.

Meg Viola

Martin Wahl

Martin Wahl is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Azure Media Services group responsible for working with global customers and partners to help architect and optimize the use of the Azure Cloud for their internal and external digital media workflows. Martin is a 7+ year veteran of Microsoft having also worked within the Interactive Entertainment and Xbox business groups as well as on the cloud-based Office365 service. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, Martin worked as a senior executive for a number of technology companies offering innovative products and services to the Pay TV and Digital Video industries, including building solutions around Video on Demand, Advanced Advertising, and T-commerce applications. Martin has a BA from the University of Southern California in Broadcasting. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife and two daughters, but is originally from Boston which makes him a huge Patriots and Red Sox fan!

Douglas Walker

Doug is responsible for the color technology in software products including Autodesk Flame, Lustre, and Maya. Previously he was Senior Principal Color Scientist for the Eastman Kodak Company in the motion picture division. Doug is also very active in the Academy's ACES project.

Joshua Walquist

Zhou Wang

Dr. Zhou Wang is a Professor at University of Waterloo and the Chief Science Officer of SSIMWAVE Inc. Over the past 20 years, he has made many contributions in the field of image/video processing, coding, communication, and quality assessment. He published nearly 200 papers in the field with over 38,000 citations. His work on SSIM image and video quality assessment has received wide recognition in academia and broad usage in the industry. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, a recipient of several prestigious awards by IEEE Signal Processing Society and the government of Canada, and a recipient of 2015 Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for his SSIM contribution.

James Welch

James Welch is a Senior Consulting Engineer with IneoQuest Technologies. He also serves as Chairman of the SCTE NOS WG4 HMS Standards committee and is a member of SMPTE and MPEG Standards groups. He has worked with many leading video service providers and OEMs in evaluating products, commissioning networks, and developing real time streaming media monitoring solutions. James is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences, including SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo, VSF’s VidTrans, NAB, and other forums on emerging standards and technology for video service providers. Before joining IneoQuest, he was Vice President of Engineering for UB Networks and Newbridge Networks. James has led the hardware and software development of a range of copper and fiber based networking equipment used in mission critical applications for Fortune 100 companies. James holds BSEE and MS degrees from the State University of NY at Buffalo and Boston University.

Richard Welsh

Richard Welsh is co-founder and CEO of Sundog Media Toolkit Ltd. He serves on the board of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) as Governor for EMEA, Central and South America region and is an Associate Producer on the production of the SMPTE documentary, “Moving Images.”

Welsh has worked in the cinema industry since 1999. He has been involved in various technology development work during this time, primarily in digital cinema and is named on patents in the area of visual perception of 3D. Welsh started his career at Dolby Laboratories where he held various positions including Film Sound Consultant, Mastering Engineer and Director of Digital Cinema. Subsequently, Welsh became Head of Digital Cinema Operations at Technicolor, where he was the operational lead for Digital Cinema, Localisation and Sound Services. At Technicolor, Welsh was responsible for all mastering, distribution and client services for theatrical releases across their UK facilities. In 2013, Welsh established cloud software company Sundog Media Toolkit. He also lectures in Media Technology at Southampton Solent University, and holds a BSc (Hons) in Media Technology and an honorary Doctor of Technology degree.

Leigh Whitcomb

Leigh Whitcomb is an Associate Architect for Imagine Communications, having joined the company in 1991. Leigh participates in AIMS, SMPTE and VSF standards committees, including active involvement on SMPTE ST 2110 Professional Media Over IP Networks, the SMPTE ST 2022 family of standards and SMPTE ST 2059 Genlock Over IP. A manager in the Toronto SMPTE section, Leigh's other professional affiliations include VSF, IEEE and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Bobby White

Nicknamed the “professor” at age 6. Graduated from Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles on the Principal’s Honor Roll. Attended Los Angeles City College and Los Angeles Harbor College studying drafting and mechanical engineering, while also working full time at Todd Shipyard in San Pedro, CA as a sandblaster. After a brief hiatus from school resumed studies at Video Technical Institute in Long Beach, CA, and earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in Video Electronics Technologies.

While attending VTI worked part-time at Century Cable in Santa Monica, CA, in the promo department as camera operator and audio mixer. Began career in broadcast television at The Production Group, in Hollywood, CA in 1987 as a staff production/maintenance engineer. Eventually served as Technical Operations Supervisor, Chief Engineer, then VP of Engineering. Moved on to Tribune Studios in Hollywood, CA in 2004 as Assistant Chief Engineer. In January 2008, Tribune Studios was purchased by Hudson Pacific Properties, and renamed Sunset Bronson Studios. Was promoted to Chief Engineer, then Director of Engineering, and finally Director of Technology. Oversees the broadcast technical operations of all three of the Sunset studios – Sunset Bronson, Sunset Gower, and the newly acquired Sunset Las Palmas. Also manages the IT department at Sunset Bronson Studios.

Primary engineer in charge on 1000’s of hours of live and live to tape programming appearing on; ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, HBO, Fox News, GSN, USA Network, KTLA, ESPN, Prime Ticket, Sci-Fi Network, Disney, and BBC to name just a few.

Meaghan Wilbur

Meaghan Wilbur is a Los Angeles based editor best known for her Primetime Emmy nominated work for CONAN on TBS. Previously, she was part of the multiple Daytime Emmy winning editing team on Sesame Street, and recently associate produced the award-winning film AWOL for director Deb Shoval. Presently she is editing a feature length comedy for director Kendall Goldberg. Meaghan discovered her love of the arts at a young age, as a dancer in training at Boston Ballet School, and later as an apprentice at a boutique editorial house specializing in advertising. She continued her fine arts education as a film major at School of Visual Arts, after a brief stint as a CompSci/Film double major at Hofstra University. She is a member of MPEG, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, SMPTE, and an executive committee member and mentor for Blue Collar Post Collective.

Konstantin Wilms

Konstantin Wilms is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, and leads the US M&E Specialist Team, tasked with helping customers deploy advanced media workflows onto the cloud. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry, and has designed & worked on large scale 2D/3D media processing, digital supply chain, computer vision, content encryption, satellite communication, and broadcast delivery systems. Prior to AWS, he held CTO and lead architecture roles and ran development teams at a number of media startups and large enterprises including News Digital Systems, and has contributed to ATSC and OASIS standards efforts.

Steve Wong

Steve Wongsteve.m.wong@gmail.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stevewong4ottAward-winning serial start-up media and entertainment infrastructure guy. Enjoys putting first-ever disruptive technology in the hands of billions. Aligns and integrates the technology view with the business view. Provides an integrated practice, thinking, methods, techniques and processes to guide decision-making and facilitate governance during the full transformation cycle. Focus is on cross-platform connected devices to boost advertising sales from multi-platform distribution deals for entertainment content, digital media content, home video content distribution and new media platforms.

Joan Wrabetz

Joan Wrabetz is the Vice President of Strategic Marketing for the Data Center Systems business unit at Western Digital Corporation and leads the global marketing efforts for HGST-branded data center infrastructure products covering public and private clouds. Prior to joining Western Digital, Joan held senior executive positions at QualiSystems (CTO), EMC advanced technology division (VP and CTO), Aumni Data (founder and CEO), Tricord Systems (CEO), StorageTek (VP and GM), and Aggregate Computing (founder and CEO). She earned a Master's of Business Administration degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor's of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. Joan also holds patents in load balancing, distributed systems, and machine learning classifications and analytics.

Jay Yogeshwar

Dr. Yogeshwar manages the Technology Alliance and Solutions portfolio for Hitachi Vantara (formerly Hitachi Data Systems). He is responsible for the media vision and direction that is transforming Hitachi from a traditional Enterprise Storage and IT Platforms Company to a mobility, cloud and big data analytics company. Prior to joining Hitachi, he was the founder and CTO of Front Porch Digital, a broadcast and video content management software firm. Dr. Yogeshwar is a leading technology expert and business executive with over 25 years’ experience as a research scientist, entrepreneur and as a business leader. He is a world-renowned expert in media technologies and IT systems covering the areas of postproduction, media asset management, media distribution, media archives and video analytics. Awards and credits include technical Emmy for DVD technology, ten US patents in media technologies, presentations and membership in prestigious professional organizations such as IEEE, SMPTE, IBC and the International Emmy’s.

Alan Young

Alan is a technology executive with broad experience in the telecoms, financial services and media environments across the globe. This includes extensive experience leading multi-functional teams working with global customers and suppliers in businesses ranging from large corporations to start-up ventures. He has developed and implemented new technologies in the business environment many times in his career. At MTV Networks, Alan developed and then implemented a mechanism for sharing a smart card with a competitor to a DTH venture to simplify the consumer experience. He also developed a methodology for reducing the number of satellite transponders necessary to serve cable TV systems – something that was subsequently patented. At Citigroup, he developed and then implemented Citigroup’s mobile banking strategy in multiple countries. He led a multi-million-dollar investment in a mobile banking start-up and served as Citigroup’s nominated director during the company’s successful IPO. At SES Americom, as CTO, he led the team that developed the IP PRIME platform, which delivered several hundred IPTV channels to telecom operators to enable them to compete effectively with cable TV operators. As CTO of Encompass Digital Media, Alan led the development of ChannelMark, which extracts timing and other valuable metadata from broadcast automation systems enabling automated frame accurate processing of everything from live-to-VOD, dynamic ad insertion and live clipping - by downstream OTT platforms.Alan is now the COO of Crystal Computer Corporation where he leads all aspects of the company’s day-to-day operations from Sales, Delivery to Service. Alan earned a Masters in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York in the U.K in 1988. He is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (F.I.E.T). He is a proven innovator and problem solver as the holder of two patents with two others applied for.

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Marc Zorn

With a career spanning from pre-Internet days, Marc Zorn has been involved with information security as a well-recognized leader in the IT industry. His participation with various consortia has helped to lay the groundwork for international groups such as FIRST and SANS, and establish standards including ISO 17799, 27000, HIPAA, and GIAC. Marc has held key security positions in the public and private sectors, including the last several years in Media and Entertainment primarily consulting with studios, post-production houses, exhibitors, and the MPAA to address protection of multimedia content through the transition from film-based to file-based workflows. As an early industry leader in the cloud space, Marc is adept with large-scale implementation of advanced technologies and security across data centers and networks in private, public, hosted, and hybrid configurations.